WARNING.....Pay Pal Scam

[DunPainted]

I received the following e-mail that immdiately sent up the red-flags....the font was not the same as used by Paypal. Here is the text of the bogus email.....Pay Pal Calls it PHISHING!

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You have added [email protected] as a new email address for

your PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance

with your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

https://www.paypal.com/us/wf/f=ap_email

Thank you for using PayPal!

The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot

be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose

the "Help" link in the header of any page.

XTQIGCGJIXOSDLVDMMFONYCCZYRTYJDVHTFROD

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HERE'S THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM THE SCAM DEPT AT PAY PAL!

Thank you for contacting PayPal. We appreciate you bringing this

suspicious email to our attention.

Commonly referred to as phishing, these emails are sent by fraudsters in

an attempt to collect sensitive personal or financial information from

the recipients. PayPal takes phishing threats seriously. Our fraud

prevention specialists are working 24/7 to help protect you and enable

the community to stay safe.

After review, we can confirm that the email you received was not sent by

PayPal. Any website which may be linked to this email is not authorized

or used by PayPal.

Our fraud prevention team is working to disable any website linked to

this email. In the meantime, please do not enter any information into

this website. If you have already done so, you should immediately log

into your PayPal account and change your password, as well as your

security questions and answers. We also recommend that you contact your

bank and credit card company immediately.

If you notice any unauthorized activity on your PayPal account, please

report it to us by following the instructions below:

1. Log in to your account only from the PayPal website. Do not use

links provided in any email.

2. Click on the Security Center link at the bottom of the page.

3. Click on the 'Unauthorized Transaction' link under the Report a

Problem column.

4. Follow the instructions on this page in order to access the

appropriate form.

Lastly, we recommend taking a few steps to protect yourself from

identity theft:

> Download the SafetyBar, a toolbar for Outlook and Outlook Express,

which identifies known spoof emails.

> Get eBay Toolbar with Account Guard which warns you when you're on a

potentially fraudulent (spoof) Web site.

> Frequently monitor your account for suspicious activity.

For additional tips please visit the PayPal Security Center at

http://www.paypal.com/security.

Once again, thank you for reporting this suspicious email. Your

vigilance helps us in our efforts to protect the PayPal community. If

you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely,

PayPal

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Important: PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal

your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone

claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any

circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately

contact us via our secure webform online.

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This

email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement,

either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is

authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK

as an electronic money institution.

THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO WARN FOLKS WHO UTILIZE PAY PAL ACCOUNTS.

Cindy

 

[mizbeth]

Interesting how those "fraudsters" get your private information from PayPal. Always makes you wonder if it isn't someone who works for them?

B

 

[HaazeMinis]

Hi Cindy

I also got that email and was wondering about it. Knowing I did not add an email address I thought it might be a scam so I deleted it. Thanks for warning us. :bgrin .

Jeri

 

[jdomep]

Dumb question? Did you log into your paypal account and make sure that address wasn't there? They are getting so sneaky lately

 

[minisaremighty]

I started recieving this particular scam about a month ago. It threw me for a few seconds, as it was not the usual one that I get. However, as soon as I saw the TO: was filled with about 15 other names, I realized it was a fraud. However, just to be sure, I always double check my account through www.paypal.com to verify that all is well.

NEVER EVER click on ANY link sent from "Paypal". The REAL Paypal does not EVER ask you to do that, so if there is a link to click to "verify" or anything, DON'T DO IT!!

 

[sharon]

These emails have been around for a long time now...I'd say at least a year. There are also emails that are supposedly from Ebay, but they are not.

The way to know if it is a sam or not is this: Put your cursos on the link that you are supposed to click on. Look down in your task bar(the one on the bottom of the screen that shows what web page you are accessing and then says "done" when the page is done loading. Look at the address that appears when you put your cursor over the link you are supposed to click. If it is a legtimate Paypal or Ebay web page, there will always be ebay.com/ or paypal.com/ I am talking about the first / after the http://. If the link that is showing has anything like mypage.com/paypal/login/ or anthing like that, it is a bogus email. They will use all sorts of things to make it look legit. When you click on the bogus links the pages you come to look very much like the official pages of Paypal and Ebay.

Hope this helps! DO NOT EVER type in any personal info into any bogus pages that you come to from these scam emails.

 

[Jenn]

I get tons of these.

A good policy is to forward any "PayPal" e-mails to [email protected] and wait for confirmation on whether or not it's real. I've never had a legit e-mail from PayPal in ... well, all the years I've been signed up with them. They just don't need to e-mail you about your account.